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Poetry

Wilfred Owen An Illustrated Life

Potter Jane, Stallworthy Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781851243945, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
144 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime...

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America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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Europe

William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Witness to History The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett

Schofield Victoria

ISBN: HB: 9780300179019, Yale University Press, May 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted wit...

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Political Science

Walther Rathenau The Limits of Success

Volkov Shulamit

ISBN: HB: 9780300144314, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who – both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish – rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position...

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Military

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With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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The German List

War Diary With Letters from Jack Hamesh to Ingeborg Bachmann

Bachmann Ingeborg

ISBN: PB: 9780857425324, ISBN: HB: 9780857420084, Seagull Books, October 2011
112 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her "War Diary" is not a day-by-day journal but a series of...

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Philosophy

Winter's Journey Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch

Virilio Paul, Brausch Marianne

ISBN: HB: 9781906497859, Seagull Books, August 2011
190 pp., 18x11 cm

French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Braus...

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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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White Field, Black Sheep A Lithuanian-American Life

Markelis Daiva

ISBN: HB: 9780226505305, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 21 halftones

Her parents never really explained what a D. P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that "displaced person" was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chi...

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